Maurice Richard "Maury" Povich (born January 17, 1939 in Washington, D.C.) is an American TV talk show personality who currently hosts his self-titled talk show "Maury" which has earned him national recognition due to the paternity tests that are often aired. Povich is the son of "Washington Post" sportswriter Shirley Povich, who wrote a weekly column for the paper for more than 70 years. Povitch is an Lithuanian Jewish surname.

Chaim Volozhin (1749-1821) was an Orthodox Jewish rabbi, Talmudist, and ethicist. Popularly known as "Reb Chaim Volozhiner", or simply "Reb Chaim", he was born in Volozhin when it was a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and died there while it was under the control of the Russian Empire. Presently it is located in Belarus. One of the most prominent disciples of the Vilna Gaon, Reb Chaim Volozhiner established the Volozhin yeshiva.

Moshe Feinstein (1895 - 1986) was a Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi and scholar, who was world renowned for his expertise in halakha and was the "de facto" supreme rabbinic authority for Orthodox Jewry of North America. In the Orthodox world, it is universal to refer to him simply as "Reb Moshe."

Joseph Ber (Yosef Dov, Yoshe Ber) Soloveitchik (1903 - 1993) was an American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher. He was the descendant of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty. As "Rosh Yeshiva" of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at Yeshiva University in New York City, The Rav, as he came to be known, ordained close to 2,000 rabbis over the course of almost half a century.

Joseph Gedaliah Klausner , also known as Yosef Klauzner (יוסף קלוזנר) was a Jewish scholar born in Olkeniki, Lithuania who emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine in 1919, and died in Israel. He was an intellectual and specialist in Jewish religion and history, and a scholar of modern Hebrew literature. He was the chief redacter of "The Hebrew Encylopedia", and taught Hebrew literature at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Tony Tenser (born 1920) is an English-born film producer of Lithuanian-Jewish descent. He specialised in producing Exploitation film movies and founded his own producion company Tigon British Film Productions in 1966.

Samuel "Shemp Howard" Horwitz (March 17, 1895 - November 22, 1955) was part of the Three Stooges comedy team. He was called "Shemp" because "Sam" came out that way in his mother's thick Jewish Lithuanian accent. He was the older brother of Moe Howard and third stooge in the early years of the act. He would rejoin the trio again in 1946, after youngest brother Curly Howard suffered a stroke. Shemp, along with his brother Moe were born in Bensonhurst and Jerome (Curly), …

Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman (also: Shtainman or Steinman is a prominent Haredi rabbi currently living in Bnei Brak, Israel. He belongs to the Lithuanian branch of Judaism, and heads a division of the famed Ponevezh yeshiva. He married Tamar (Tema) Kornfeld (d. 2002), a descendant of Moshe Chaim Rotenberg of Khentshin.

Rabbi Aharon (or Ahroyn, Aaron, Aron) Kotler (1891 - 1962) was a prominent leader of Orthodox Judaism in Lithuania, and later the United States of America, where he built one of the first yeshivas in the US.

Robert Briscoe, son of Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants, was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who was elected a Teachta Dála in the Irish general election, 1927. Briscoe was active in Sinn Féin during Anglo-Irish War of 1919-21 and he accompanied de Valera to America. Briscoe spoke for the Sinn Féin cause at public meetings there. Briscoe was adamant that being a "Hebrew" did not lessen his Irishness.

Rabbi Yosef Sholom Eliashiv is a Haredi rabbi and "posek" (arbiter of Jewish law) who lives in Jerusalem, Israel. Presently well into his nineties, he is active and remains the paramount leader of Israel's Lithuanian non-Hasidic Haredi Ashkenazi Jews (sometimes called by the old label of "misnagdim") who regard him as the "posek ha-dor", the contemporary leading authority on halakha, or Jewish law.

Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin was the Rosh yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva and author if several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania. His name is commonly abbreviated by its consonants as Netziv (נציב which can also mean "pillar").

Leo Kuper (1908 - 1994) was a writer and philosopher. He was born to a Lithuanian Jewish family in South Africa. He trained as a lawyer before becoming a sociologist specialising in the study of genocide. He married the anthropologist Hilda Kuper, with whom he had two daughters: the international human rights lawyer Dr Jenny Kuper and the painter and sculptor Mary Kuper.

Arik Brauer. Austrian painter, draughtsman, printmaker, poet, dancer, singer and stage designer. He resides in Vienna and Ein-Hod Israel. Brauer is a co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism, together with Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, Wolfgang Hutter and Anton Lehmden. Erich 'Arik' Brauer is the child of Lithuanian Jewish emigrants. His post-war artistic training was in Vienna, under the supervision of Albert Paris von Gütersloh.

Yitzchok (Isaac) Hutner (1906 - 1980) was an Orthodox rabbi born in Warsaw, Poland, to a family with both Ger Hasidim and non-Hasidic Lithuanian Jews in their origins. He received private instruction in Torah and Talmud. As a young teenager, he was enrolled in the famous "mussar" Slabodka yeshiva in Lithuania, headed by the famous Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel. There, he was known as the "Warsaw Illui" ("prodigy").

Rabbi Elya Svei is one of the Rosh Yeshivas of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia, although he retired. He was one of the foremost leaders of Litvish Jewry, and one of its Gedolim.

George Kadish was a Lithuanian Jewish photographer who documented life in the Kovno Ghetto during the Holocaust, the period of the Nazi German genocide against Jews. (He was born Zvi (Hirsh) Kadushin.) Prior to World War II he was a mathematics, science and electronics teacher at a Hebrew High School in Kovno, Lithuania. As a hobby, Kadish was a photographer. He was skilled at making home-made cameras.

David Lapin was born in South Africa to a Jewish family of Lithuanian descent. He is the son of the late Rabbi A.H. Lapin (1912-1991), senior rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregation of Johannesburg, and chief rabbi of the Cape Town Hebrew Congregation and brother of well known Rabbi Daniel Lapin and of Rabbi Raphael Lapin. Lapin is currently the CEO of Strategic Business Ethics, Inc., …

Iosif Romualdovich Grigulevich was one of the most remarkable Soviet illegal operatives (an agent without diplomatic cover) during the 1930s and 1940s. He took a leading role in assassinating leftists who were not loyal to Joseph Stalin, such as anarchists, real and alleged Trotskyists, etc. in the period leading up to and during the Spanish Civil War. He was also instrumental in Leon Trotsky's assassination in 1940.

Dr. Robert Soblen was a Lithuanian-born psychiatrist and reputed Soviet spy. In 1940, Robert Soblen and his brother Jack - were sent to America by Soviet Secret Police Chief Lavrenty Beria. Their families emigrated with them. During World War II, Dr. Soblen provided the Soviets with secret documents from the Office of Strategic Services and information from the Sandia nuclear-weapons development center at Albuquerque.

Vyacheslav Ganelin (born December 17, 1944 in Kraskovo near Moscow) is a Lithuanian Jewish jazz musician and composer. He plays piano, organ, bass, guitar, percussions and was one of the jazz pioneers in the Soviet Union.

Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky has been co-Rosh Yeshiva of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia for the past 50 years with Rabbi Elya Svei and is probably the current best-known Gadol (Haredi Litvish Jewish religious leader) outside the of Israel. He is the most famous son of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky. Rabbi Kamenetsky is on the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Agudath Israel of America. While Rabbi Yaakov Perlow is the head of the Moetzes, …

Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman (1886 - 1976) was a 20th Century Jewish religious leader, serving as the Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi of the State of Israel from 1964 until his retirement shortly before his death. Born in Brest-Litovsk in modern Belarus, Unterman was educated at the Etz Chaim Yeshiva in Maltsch. There, he became a pupil of its Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Shimon Shkop.

Yitzchak Yaacov Reines יצחק יעקב ריינס (Isaac Jacob Reines was a Lithuanian Orthodox rabbi and the founder of the Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement.

Julius Davidovich Brutzkus or Judah Loeb Brutzkus ("Yehuda Loeb ben David Brutzkus",) (1870-?) was a Lithuanian Jewish historian, scholar, and politician. He was born in 1870 in Polangen, in the governorate of Courland. He was the brother of the economist Boris Brutzkus. Julius studied at the gymnasium and University of Moscow, from which city his family, along with thousands of other Jewish families, was expelled in 1892.

Irving Saul Shapiro (July 15, 1916, Minnesota - September 13, 2001) was an American businessman. He is best known for being the chairman and CEO of DuPont (December 1973-) He was born as a son of Lithuanian Jewish immigrant family. He was the father of a lawyer. He was the grandfather of several children. His wife died in 2006. His son is now the head of a law firm. He was also business friends with former president Jimmy Carter.

Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach is a prominent Haredi rabbi living in Jerusalem, Israel. He is regarded as one of the leading non-Hasidic Lithuanian rabbis today. His views and declarations are regarded as highly authoritative by most Ashkenazi Haredi Jews living in Israel. He is the son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach who was likewise regarded as a leading sage. Auerbach is considered by Haredi Jews to be one of the most important religious authorities for Haredi Ashkenazi Jews.

Rabbi Zalman Nechemia Goldberg is a rabbi, posek, and Rosh Yeshiva in Israel. The scion of a Lithuanian Jewish family, Rabbi Goldberg is also a son-in-law of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach. He is a halakhic authority and a member of a rabbinical High Court, where he has made rulings on the issues of gittin, kesubos, artificial insemination, and the commandment of living in the Land of Israel.

Elazar Menachem Man Shach (January 22, 1898 - November 2, 2001), was a leading Eastern European-born and educated Haredi rabbi who settled and lived in modern Israel. He was the rosh yeshiva ("dean") of the Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, and founded the Degel HaTorah political party representing Lithuanian Ashkenazi Jews in the Israeli Knesset, …

Monsignor Simon Morkunas (1902-1997) was a priest in the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Valtunai, Lithuania on February 16, 1902, received his education at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, and was ordained to the priesthood in 1933. Msgr. Morkunas is noted for his humanitarian and charity work in Lithuania, and for his contributions to easing the plights of displaced and oppressed people, both in Europe and in the United States.

Moses ben Isaac Judah Lima (Hebrew: משה בן יצחק יהודה לימה) was a Lithuanian rabbinical scholar, one of the Acharonim. "Lima" is not the family name, but a nickname for "Yehudah". When a comparatively young man he successively occupied the rabbinates of Brest-Litovsk and Slonim. His fame as a scholar soon reached Vilna, whither he was called, in 1650, to fill the office of chief rabbi. Lima was of a retiring and diffident disposition, …